Jordan Passman, 27

Founder, ScoreAScore

Musicians are too often without work--as was Passman in 2009. To solve both problems, he created ScoreAScore, which allows brands (Google, Pizza Hut, Verizon and more) to offer gigs composing music for ads, trailers and the like. Passman gets 40%--not bad, given total sales of about $800,000 this year.